Insurance Journal
Newly posted data from Florida regulators show that, in the last three years, the number of property insurance policies in the state has risen only slightly while direct premium written and average premiums have climbed significantly. The first-quart...
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
Newly posted data from Florida regulators show that, in the last three years, the number of personal property insurance policies in the state has risen only slightly while direct premium written and average premiums have climbed significantly. The fi...
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
ZestyAI has announced a four-year extension of its partnership with the California FAIR Plan. The Golden State’s insurer of last resort has tapped ZestyAI’s Z-FIRE wildfire risk model for risk assessment since 2021. That model leverages A...
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
MoneyGram agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to settle a New York state lawsuit over its remittance transfers, two months after the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau withdrew from the civil case. The accord announced on Monday by New York …
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
MoneyGram agreed to pay a $250,000 fine to settle a New York state lawsuit over its remittance transfers, two months after the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau withdrew from the civil case. The accord announced on Monday by New York …
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
“Don’t say this is going to be the worst fire season,” Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo jokingly told State Forester and Fire Warden Kacey KC at a June 10 wildfire briefing in Carson City. “You say that every year.” KC smiled &#...
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
Mercury Insurance, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, appointed Steve Bennett as its senior director of climate and catastrophe science. In this new position, Bennett will build and lead a team focused on identifying ways Mercury and its polic...
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
Not one but two class action lawsuits have been filed against Erie Insurance even as the insurer continues to investigate its cyber security incident. One lawsuit was filed by an Illinois customer, Neil Plascencia; the other by Amy Haas, a …
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
Wafa Assurance has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Egypt’s Delta Insurance from its current owner Egypt Kuwait Holding Company, as it targets an expansion of its operations in the Egyptian market, it said on Monday. Wafa Assurance, a R...
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
For the first time ever, parts of Alaska are under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term. It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the …
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Since his inauguration in late January, President Donald Trump has imposed (and pledged to impose) several tariffs affecting nearly all U.S. imports. While the somewhat sporadic nature of these ac...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to whittle down or phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and last week he gave a rough timeline for that: “after hurricane season.” “We want to wean off of FEMA, and...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
Flash flooding caused by torrential rains killed five people in northern West Virginia and rescue crews were searching for three other people who were missing Sunday as authorities assessed damage to roads, bridges, natural gas lines and other infras...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other oil and gas companies to have lawsuits brought by two Louisiana localities accusing them of harming the state’s coast over a period of …
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
Purdue Pharma has won support from the attorneys general of 55 U.S. states and territories for its $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits against the drugmaker and its owners, members of the Sackler family. A framework for &#...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
Artemis Insurance, the parent brand of Texan Insurance, Ozark Insurance, and Marek Insurance, announced the acquisition of Baton Rouge-based Tyner Jeter Insurance. Formerly part of McInnis Tyner Agency since 1972, the team launched Tyner Jeter Insura...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
A jury in federal court ruled that a New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy had violated its owners’ constitutional rights but was shielded from punishment under qualified immunity because of his government role, according to th...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
A jury in federal court ruled that a New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy had violated its owners’ constitutional rights but was shielded from punishment under qualified immunity because of his government role, according to th...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities. The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
Everest announced its international insurance division has launched a unified specialties business, bringing together its offerings across marine, aviation, energy & construction, cyber, and industry practices. Paul Trueman has been appointed to...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
The Washington Post is investigating a cyberattack on the email accounts of some journalists, prompting the newspaper to beef up its online security. The intrusion was discovered late Thursday and the company carried out a forced reset of login crede...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
College basketball turned heads in March. Now, we're have the final rounds of Verisk's emerging issues bracket that could hold the attention of insurance pros for years to come.
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
College basketball turned heads in March. Now, we're have the final rounds of Verisk's emerging issues bracket that could hold the attention of insurance pros for years to come.
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday said it was streamlining reviews of requests filed by automakers seeking to deploy self-driving vehicles without required human controls like steering wheels, brake pedals or mirrors. NHTSA...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025
Florida’s governor has signed House Bill 1549 into law, eliminating the requirement that insurance agents make a “diligent effort” to find coverage before placing properties with a surplus lines carrier. Thanks to a late amendment t...
Posted: Jun 16, 2025